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Apparatûs

//æp.əˈɹæt.uːs// noun

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Noun

1
plural of apparatus form-of, plural, rare
"DOMESTIC VAPOUR BATH.—Of all the domestic apparatûs that have been invented as auxiliaries to medicine, that of the Vapour Bath affords the most efficacious preventive of inflammation of the lungs, liver, or intestines; and when either of these diseases has taken place, it is often more efficacious in checking its progress, and in producing a favourable termination, than internal medicine, and is unquestionably, in the majority of cases, necessary to secure the beneficial operation of internal remedies."

Etymology

From Latin apparātūs, the nominative plural form of apparātus; the circumflex exists to distinguish the long vowel of the plural from the short vowel of the singular, avoiding homography.

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